Example sentences of "[pron] want [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So all I 'm saying is I just want , I want to finish but again you 're in danger cos I just carry on you see that 's down there . |
| 2 | M. It 's despair at the lack of ( I 'm cheating , I did n't say all these things — but I 'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did ) feeling , of love , of reason in the world . |
| 3 | But the money is in the budget Chairman , I want to make that quite clear , the money is here in , in the West Mercia Police budget to be able to provide sixteen extra policemen immediately . |
| 4 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 5 | Now I 've got er a little thing I wanted to ask as well about erm how people tend to label people as gay |
| 6 | Corden admitted : ‘ I wanted to resign when Little left the club . |
| 7 | Though she wants to work and often plans to after marriage … her home and children always come first . |
| 8 | You know what you want to say and mainly how to say it . |
| 9 | The only good thing I like about the fourth year , you 're doing the subjects you want to do but apart from that |
| 10 | Try not to do it as you go , I mean , try to have a very definite idea in your mind what you want to do cos otherwise , you know , you start off , you 've painted half of it grey and think oh do n't like it like this bit ! |
| 11 | The first step is therefore to decide exactly how much you want to spend and then to look at the range of items that can be purchased for this figure or less . |
| 12 | The questionnaire helps give Pauline an idea of the kind of look you want to achieve as well as details about the size of the room , position of doors and windows , and so on . |
| 13 | Erm , ampersand is is quite interesting , you all know that symbol , because it 's used in handwriting , although nowadays , it , nowadays you would tend to use something like that I do n't know , what , do you , do you , do you sort of if you want to write and quickly . |
| 14 | Require contacts from stunning chicks who want to meet and maybe we can do some scratching and pecking together Pictures guarantee a party . |
| 15 | Jinny hunted for what she wanted to say and then let it out in a rush . |
| 16 | She wanted to go and yet did n't want to go both at once . |
| 17 | I could see she wanted to leave and soon she pushed her chair back from the table and stood up to leave . |
| 18 | She wanted to leave as soon as she arrived , run to her grandparents in Stockholm , away from the faint echo of whole classes reciting their multiplication tables . |
| 19 | She wanted to cry and even that did not seem worth the effort . |
| 20 | ‘ Make no mistake , we want to clear and then develop the site . |
| 21 | As a TO one wants to do as well as one can , and the paradox is that the better one does in a sense the worse it is for the voluntary movement , who should be persuaded to do the maximum rather than the minimum . |
| 22 | And I said oh that 's right , he said and I , I 'd come up and see her the first we 'll either take her out for a drink afterwards , I thought that does n't seemed to mix in one glass , and I going to a pub because she 's , but there you are , and she so 's erm , can I bet you 'll stay a bit , she said oh , I think December is your like it to be , well obviously it 's getting him settled you must n't over , she must off pushed him and then he 's said erm , I , I 've told mum and dad that if they want to go as well , they can go . |
| 23 | Er , people with unknown ambitions , frontiers that they want to adjust and so on . |
| 24 | They want to know whether today 's men are better fathers , whether men will ever open up at the breakfast table , whether male impotence is on the rise , whether men suffer from their own form of menopause , whether men will cultivate any interest in pastimes more enlightened than football and snooker . |
| 25 | Would he want to know that everywhere one turned in this Golden Age of the future , there was war and violence and man 's dreadful inhumanity ? |
| 26 | I get the impression that Mr Ataie has decided what he wants to say and then created characters to fit his theme . |
| 27 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
| 28 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 29 | I felt responsible because I encouraged him to be in the group in the first place , I persuaded him to stay when he wanted to go and yet in the end we asked him to leave , ’ says Gedge . |
| 30 | He knew he wanted to write but just what medium he would use to convey his feelings was unclear . |